English – Year 6
I can
Tell you the meaning of many new words.
Use a variety of prefixes and suffixes.
Read many words that I have not encountered
before.
Discuss with confidence a wide range of fiction,
poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference/text
books.
Read and understand a variety of different literary
structures.
Recommend books to my friends and discuss
why I like them and what could be better about
them.
Identify and discuss the themes and conventions
of many stories.
Recite many poems from memory.
Prepare and direct a play for performance.
Sense-check texts for meaning.
Ask questions to improve my understanding.
Infer information about the feelings, thoughts and
motives of characters from what I am reading.
Predict what might happen from details stated
and implied.
Summarise the main ideas in a text of several
paragraphs.
Tell you how the language, structure and
presentation add to the meaning of a text, giving
examples.
Discuss and evaluate how authors use language
to impact the reader.
Retrieve, record and present information from a
variety of non-fiction sources.
Participate in classroom discussions with my
peers about books that I have read, or that
somebody has read to me or summarised for me.
Explain and discuss what I have read through
formal presentation.
Composition and handwriting
Read and understand books written for a wide
range of different purposes.
Enjoy a wide variety of different fiction genres
including myths, legends and traditional stories,
modern fiction and fiction from history, and books
from other cultures and traditions.
Comprehension
English – Year 6
Provide a reasoned argument to support my
views.
Transcription
Word
Reading
I can
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters.
Distinguish between homophones by their
spelling.
Spell the words I have been taught.
Use a dictionary to check the spelling and
meaning of words.
Use a thesaurus to find alternative words with the
same meaning.
Identify my audience and write with them in mind.
Draft my work developing initial ideas and
researching where necessary.
Consider how authors have developed
characters and settings and use that knowledge
to plan my own work.
Select and use the correct grammar and explain
how my choices can change and enhance
meaning.
Write a short précis of a longer passage.
Use organisational and presentational devices to
structure stories.
Assess the effectiveness of my writing and other
people’s writing.
Suggest changes to the vocabulary, grammar
and punctuation I have used to improve the
writing.
Check my work to ensure that the correct tense is
used.
Check my work to ensure that the correct subject
and verb agreement is used.
Check my work for spelling and punctuation
errors.
Write cursive text legibly, fluently and with
increasing speed.
Vocabulary, grammar and
punctuation
Punctuate direct and indirect speech.
Use passive verbs.
Use the perfect form of verbs.
Use expanded noun phrases.
Use modal verbs or adverbs.
Use relative clauses.
Use commas; hyphens; brackets for parenthesis.
Use semi-colons, colons and dashes as
boundaries between independent clauses.
Use a colon to introduce a list.
Punctuate bullet points.
Use the grammar I have learned.
English Targets Year 6
2016-17
Name_____________________________